With Friends Like These: A Not-So-Funny Legacy

BreakPoint with Charles Colson ^ | May 6, 2004 | Charles Colson

[motzman]

Chappelle is like Chris Rock, take race away and you got nothing.

I used to think that, until I watched his shows a few times. Fall on the floor funny.

"Charlie Murphy's True Hollywood Stories" (I'm Rick James, b%^ch!)

The white family with the last name "Niggas"

[Ruth A.]

I saw Chapelle's racial draft last night and it was very funny. So was the music experiement (electric guitars make white people dance; drums make black people dance; keyboard, conga drums and Spanish gibberish on top make Hispanic people dance). He could have great stuff even without the profanity and I would enjoy him more.

[rintense]

According to what a friend says, the only two that DIDN'T sleep together were the brother and sister (don't know their names).

Not true. Joey and Pheobe never slept together. Joey and Rachel didn't (she kept reaction slapping him, which was hysterical). Rachel and Chandler never slept together. Phoebe and Ross never slept together. Chandler and Phoebe didn't, but came close as part of a plot to reveal Chandler and Monica were a couple. Joey and Monica never slept together. And of course, Ross and Monica never slept together.

I loved this show and will miss it a lot. Although I can't identify with the chartacters, I have identified with some of their situations on the show. It muses the lives of gen x'ers, and has done so wonderfully. Were there stupid moments? Sure. What show doesn't have them?

[dfwgator]

With the exception of "Newhart"

Definately the most clever ending of any show I've ever seen.

[Joe Republc]

'Friends' is the first super-popular sit-com in my life that I have NEVER watched. Too busy with the kids, and maybe after 40+ years of TV, I've seen enough.

Seinfeld was the last sitcom I watched on a current run. X-Files was the last drama I watched on a current run.

Frankly, I don't really miss network TV!

-- Joe

[Mr. Silverback]

Nothing...NOTHING, I SAY!!!...will ever top that last episode of Newhart!

Nothing will ever top the bit at the end when he wakes up and he's in bed with Suzanne Pleshette! Funniest bit ever!

[Mr. Silverback]

"Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman" did not have a laugh track, and I thought it was hilarious. Just goes to show that good writing doesn't need to prompt the audience.

Perhaps, but like I said, if it was good enough for Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore...

[Maria S]

"Nothing will ever top the bit at the end when he wakes up and he's in bed with Suzanne Pleshette! Funniest bit ever!"

Yep! THAT'S what I meant to say...and you said much better.